13. This Randy Old Goat’s Habit of Getting it On Whenever and Wherever He Could Eventually Ended Him
Henry John Templeton (1784 – 1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston and better known as Lord Palmerston, dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865, when Britain was at the height of its power. He served as Secretary at War from 1809 to 1828, as Foreign Secretary from 1830 to 1841 and again from 1846 to 1851, and twice as Prime Minister, from 1855 to 1858, and again from 1859 to 1865. In his private life, he was a randy old goat who was in the habit of getting it on whenever and wherever he could.
Lord Palmerston is the only British Prime Minister to have ever passed in office, and oh what an ending it was. On October 18th, 1865, the eighty-year-old Prime Minister, who enjoyed robust health well past his biblical three score and ten, reportedly was getting it on with a maid on a billiard table. He seems to have overexerted himself, which led to his demise in the midst of his illicit romance, just two days shy of his eighty-first birthday.